# IFM releases six-model K2 Horizon family under Apache 2.0

_Thursday, September 3, 2026 at 8:00 AM EDT · AI · Latest · Tier 1 — Major_

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IFM said it released K2 Horizon, a six-model family ranging from 0.9 billion to 375 billion total parameters, with weights and code under the Apache 2.0 license. The company also said it is publishing intermediate checkpoints, training data where redistribution permits or data-construction recipes, configurations, logs and evaluation results. The fleet includes dense and sparse models intended for deployments from constrained devices to enterprise workloads. IFM characterized several performance results as leading within their size classes.

## Sources

- [ifm.ai](https://ifm.ai/blog/k2/)

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